http://www.mberkay.com Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:09:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Interesting links for August 21st through August 27th: Mozilla Labs » Blog Archive » Introducing Ubiquity - An experiment into connecting the Web with language. An Army of Solipsists » Blog Archive » High Performance Grails - A nice description of the steps to improve the performance of a Grails based ... http://www.mberkay.com/2008/08/27/bookmarks-for-august-21st-through-august-27th/ At iFountain, we've embraced the open source business model since the beginning of 2008. Since then, we've been working on not only moving our code but also our development practices to open source. We've established a separate site for open source development, ifountain.org, where everything is out in the open, source ... http://www.mberkay.com/2008/08/21/announcing-rapidinsight-as-an-open-source-project-and-getting-slammed-for-it/ Interesting links for August 21st from 08:14 to 08:14: Modest Maps - Modest Maps is a BSD-licensed display and interaction library for tile-based maps in Flash (ActionScript 2.0 and ActionScript 3.0) and Python. Our intent is to provide a minimal, extensible, customizable, and free display library for discriminating designers and developers who ... http://www.mberkay.com/2008/08/21/bookmarks-for-august-21st-from-0814-to-0814/ Interesting links for August 20th from 10:03 to 10:03: RapidInsight for Netcool - Confluence - RapidInsight is an integration and automation solution for operations management, and typically used to integrate data from disparate management systems and present to users through a simple, unified, consistent web based user interface. In today's organizations, managing ... http://www.mberkay.com/2008/08/20/bookmarks-for-august-20th-from-1003-to-1003/ I'm writing this post from Findikli, Turkey, a small town on the Blacksea coast of Turkey, near Georgian border.  Sitting in the terrace of my grandfather's house, connected to the Internet via broadband. I keep repeating this fact to myself (and others) likely due to some level of disbelief. It ... http://www.mberkay.com/2008/08/12/living-three-waves-at-once-reaching-from-agricultural-age-to-information-age/ I was so jealous of TravelGal's Swiss medical experience that I've decided to give it a try myself, and proceeded to fly over my bike while descending "La Dole". Seemingly minor cut in my knee turned out to be a lot deeper and stuffed with pieces of gravel, and after ... http://www.mberkay.com/2008/07/01/busted-knee-and-venturing-into-an-er-in-switzerland/ A recent post by Fred Wilson brought attention to an area that is off particular interest to anyone (myself included) who has an interest on the impact of technology on society. Can technology help solve the most critical problems we face around the world? hunger, health, energy, etc.? And if ... http://www.mberkay.com/2008/06/30/web-20-community-is-the-lab-for-social-technologies/ I'm about to head out to the train station to go to Basel to watch the Turkey - Germany semi final match. Having had the fortune to watch the Czech game in Geneva, I'm excited that I'll be in the match regardless of the outcome.  I'll also be meeting with ... http://www.mberkay.com/2008/06/25/turkey-germany-euro-2008-semi-final/ I'm not a developer but play one on TV youtube. Well OK, I don't even play one on youtube, but I work with developers day in and day out, hence I'm an eclipse user by association.  This is how I first run into Mylyn.  The simple brilliance of the idea ... http://www.mberkay.com/2008/06/01/can-tasktop-bring-order-to-chaos/ This week HP has announced to acquisition of EDS for $13.9 billion. Naturally, the acquisition of such size got fair bit of attention in financial circles, talking heads analyzing the numbers and speculating what it may mean for two companies in very broad terms. With this acquisition, HP becomes ... http://www.mberkay.com/2008/05/17/eds-hp-ibm-and-professional-services-in-the-it-management-sector/